Thank you.

So this is the recording.

That's one thing, sir.

Yeah, I got one, I think.

And Angels making us all copies right now.

One more complete set.

Yes.

So good morning.

Thank you for joining us today.

We will start going through all that.

Um we'll give you a chance to present what you want to present today.

I don't think there's anything new in there.

It's just kind of recapping where we've left off.

And we can look at scheduling the next meeting.

Very good.

Who starts this presentation off?

Where's the clicker?

No, the clicker.

IT, can you go to the next slide, please?

Sasha Andonoski Office of Management and Budget.

Next slide please.

So this is just a recap from your proposal from 4.7 2026.

So main items are compensation increases and a half percent for all years and then uh increases to most of the incentives.

Next slide.

Okay.

So this next slide uh shows the request from 417 2026.

Most of the request is uh language uh language changes and then we have uh and we are requesting uh change from uh the three to four assistant chiefs on this one and next slide so this is the estimation that uh and we calculated of the of the total uh uh total variance from the current contract to the to the next contract we calculated sixty six sixty five point uh eight million dollars of variance uh this includes uh uh step increases of five percent plus seven and a half percent uh call increases uh total of twelve point five percent increases uh on an annual basis uh next slide uh so the city proposal is uh so we are proposing call adjustment of three percent uh from from current percent uh from current three percent to two percent for each of the next four years uh and then we are increasing we are proposing uh uh increase of the entry salary for firefighters uh which include uh removing step two and start at step three uh which is five percent increase fire suppression technician technician combining those two FS2 and FS3 but I'm chief deputy chief and assistant chief uh and removing step six and seven and start at step eight and we are proposing to add uh new steps for uh firefighters fire suppression technicians battalion chief uh deputy chief and assistant chief and also uh fight medical paramedics assignment pay at uh uh five percent while working as a paramedic on an aircraft transport unit next slide so this is the estimation for the city proposal uh we are looking at 37.7 million dollars for total impact for total variance from the current contract and uh the next slide shows uh comparison between both proposals uh the the variance between both proposals is 28 million dollars this includes uh steps cola incentives and benefits uh with regards to the attrition we were like we would like to point out that uh total attrition for the uh current uh contract uh we uh there was a 201 uh firefighters but then uh we added 236 firefighters so so the attrition is positive for you guys so we we were able to increase the the staffing by 35 firefighters uh which is 17 percent from the from the beginning of the of the contract uh when we are looking at okay so now I think it's thank you.

Hi, good morning.

So just to recap, I think I mentioned this in our previous uh meeting um we use our economic research institute data, which is basically trying to compare his apples to apples.

We use the data because it normalizes the cost of labor and the cost of uh goods um to the city of El Paso.

It's important to highlight that the police collective bargaining process has used it in the past contracts.

This slide highlights our current standing in fiscal year 2026.

It highlights where we stand in comparison to our market cities.

And for fiscal year 2026, our ranking for firefighter at the minimum or the base entry rate was six.

And keep in mind, like I mentioned previously, the middle of the road is ranking of five because we had a total of 10 cities.

So five is the middle ground.

And so firefighter, we were ranking at the minimum at six, and the maximum at four.

Fire suppression technician, we were ranking at nine for the minimum, and for the maximum at four.

Lieutenant, we were ranking at a minimum of five, and our maximum was at four.

Our minimum rate was a ranking of five, and our maximum rate was a ranking of seven.

And lastly, our assistant chief rank.

And the maximum of our rate was a ranking of six.

If they had the information, and I'll go into who had the most current 2027 data and who didn't, so that you can see that.

But you can see the rankings there for each of our fire ranks.

Those that are highlighted in green actually show an increase in our rankings for the better.

And I want to highlight those.

It is the firefighter rank, the maximum uh rate goes from a ranking of four to a ranking of three.

For the fire suppression technician, both our minimum and our maximum rates show an increase to a ranking of seven and three, respectively.

Seven for the minimum rate and three for the maximum.

Lieutenant and captain, no change.

Battalion chief, we do increase with a minimum rate of four, with a minimum base rate of a ranking of four and the maximum a ranking of two.

And then deputy chief, our minimum base rate remains the same at a ranking of five, but then we do increase our maximum to a ranking of five.

And then lastly, our assistant chief, we do show a positive change at the base minimum rate of a ranking of seven, some going from eight to seven, and then we do show at the maximum though, we do uh show a uh ranking change at the base maximum from six to seven.

So I just want to move forward and kind of highlight what you've already seen in the previous meeting that we had.

This is um, yes.

Yes, and and I would yeah, so the the rankings for 2027, it's a mixture of data that is uh based on fiscal year 2027 as well as fiscal year 2026, it also does exclude the city of Tucson, and that was based on what we heard in our previous meeting with regards to the city of Tucson, um and so we just went ahead for 2027, we just remove it, remove that city altogether, and so we'll get into it further down the presentation to show show that and highlight that.

So this is the information that we presented in our previous meeting.

So these are the rankings currently in 2026, and this is what I've highlighted just recently.

You can see uh the rank firefighter, you see the adjusted minimum and the adjusted maximums, and then you see uh the rankings that I reported in the previous slide.

So we have for fiscal year 2026.